: Here is one that I recently came across, and liked (look at the : last example): http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/elastic-lists/ : The code has apparently also been recently open-sourced.
Ah... that is a pretty awesome visual UI for facets -- and they do use sparklines but not in the way i was suggesting. If you "show" sparklines in that UI, then each facet *constraint* includes a sparkline showing it's distribution over time ... so in the nobel price demo, if you turn sparklines on and look at the "prize" facet, each type of prize has a sparkline showing how many were given out over the years (so it's easy to see that economics prizes were added relatively late) but there isn't a sparkline showing the statistical distribution of values across numeric fields -- the only numeric field is year (well, they also have decade but that's the same thing) and by having hte sparkline on the constraints instead of on the facet itself, you can't tell at quick glance wether the number of total prizes given out is trending up or down. The sparklines also aren't updated as constraincts from other facets are applied -- if i click on the "female" constraint in the gender facet, i would like to see the sparklines on all of the other facets updated to provide a visual cue of how the results have changed for that facet/constraint (instead, this ui shrinks the bounding boxes arround each constraint in a collaping model -- which makes perfect sense given that the entire point of hte UI is "elastic lists" ... but it doesn't convey distribution information) -Hoss
